Ramblings on Spliced

[flighty_dreams]

Just babbling on here, feel free to ignore (this is more for my edification than anyone else's), but...

I have Good News and Bad News. I even have Neutral news!

The Good:  I did work on some Spliced today, and I even decided to outline the rest of the story. And I really did. All of it. All the major stuff is sorted out, and the chain of events. Awesome. For someone who is usually completely disorganized, this is a Big Deal lol.

The Bad: After looking at how much stuff I still have to go, I depressed myself. I'm maybe halfway, if that even. I had no idea Spliced was going to be this long when I started it... Parts 3 and 4 are just really long, or at least how I currently have it outlined, they are. I have to look over it again and see what stuff I could combine/remove. Or maybe some of the chapters I have listed will be short. I'll see. (I wrote an item for each chapter, so my outline is like a list really, but a list of events in order.) I guess that length does give Matt plenty of time to "grow up" though...

The Neutral: I do have several chapters that aren't posted yet (particularly in Part 3) already written. But they do have to be revised or in some cases even rewritten. Not like I can just post them up! But at least that's work that's already done, or a lot of the roadwork laid out.

We'll see what happens. Either way, I am more glad than sad that I sat down and wrote this all out, so I have a clear picture in my head of what's going to happen. I have had that picture for a while--I knew all these events were going to happen--but it's been all disorganized and scattered. However now I finally put it into a cohesive order. I'm happy I was able to do that. At the same time, at least I know no one will be saying goodbye to these characters for a quite a while! :D

Comments

[alina-kotik.livejournal.com]

Of course, the workload is enormous, but for me as a reader all news seemed GOOD!, because it means I am in for a long, detailed, psychologically true, exciting and enticing story, which already had me hooked from the very beginning. Please, let not the sheer amount of future writing discourage you - think of hundreds of your readers, who, like me dread to imagine their lives without your characters, and are willing (if grumbling a bit) to wait patiently for updates until you are satisfied with each new chapter.

[flighty-dreams.livejournal.com]

Aww, well thank you for your kind comments. That's great to hear that you were hooked from early on, b/c sometimes I think maybe I drag things out too much or ramble on in my story. I wonder if some parts are boring, etc. I'm my own worst critic. XD

"Psychologically true"... I like that. Yeah, I hope to make it good and not cut corners on character development. It would feel like cheating if I didn't do it properly, and I'd like to think it makes my characters more believable when I don't take the easy ways to things. I hope it all works out like that at least!

I don't know about hundreds of readers (I wish!) but hey 50 would be great. ;) Either way, it's nice to know that there are people out there interested in more and wanting to see how it all ends. I want to finish it to prove to myself that I can (I'm one of those ppl that never seems to finish anything I start), but it's wonderful people like you that push me to be more diligent and work on it more--and update more rapidly. ;) So thanks again! <3

P.S. I should have an update ready within the next day or so. ;)

[spike7451.livejournal.com]

Will be here no matter how long it takes to finish would not miss this fic for the world.

[flighty-dreams.livejournal.com]

Aww thanks, what a lovely thing to say! I'm happy you're hooked, even if you have to deal with the frustration of waiting for updates--but you sound like you're willing to be remarkably patient, which makes me feel even more flattered!

I AM working on it, so that should be good news at least! ;) Update soon!